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Post-Doctoral Researcher within the ERC Project MARIPOLDATA At the Faculty of Social Sciences (Department of Political Science) of the University of Vienna 1 Post-Doc position within the ERC Project MARIPOLDATA is vacant. Applications should be sent electronically to maripoldata.erc@univie.ac.at by 3rd of February 2019. Overview: The successful candidate will work in an interdisciplinary research team under the supervision of Dr Alice Vadrot. The role of the research assistant arises from the award of a 1.4…

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2 PhD Positions/Prae-Docs within the ERC Project MARIPOLDATA At the Faculty of Social Sciences (Department of Political Science) of the University of Vienna 2 PhD positions within the ERC Project MARIPOLDATA are vacant. Applications should be sent electronically to maripoldata.erc@univie.ac.at by 3rd of February 2019. Overview: The successful candidates will work in an interdisciplinary research team under the supervision of Dr Alice Vadrot. The role of the research assistant arises from the award of a…

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At the Faculty of Social Sciences (Department of Political Science) of the University of Vienna the position of a Research Administrator within the ERC Project MARIPOLDATA is vacant. Overview: The successful candidate will work in an interdisciplinary research team under the supervision of Dr Alice Vadrot. The role of the research assistant arises from the award of a 1.4 Mio Euro Starting Grant from the European Research Council to Dr Vadrot, Principal Investigator of the…

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One year ago, I started to put together my ideas for a submission to the Starting Grant scheme of the European Research Council (ERC). Inspired by research conducted during my two-year stay at the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) of the University of Cambridge, debates with my distinguished colleagues and a succession of great discussions and workshops with Hannah Hughes from Cardiff University, I sat down over the summer last year to write a…

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A collaboration between partners from the Cambridge Conservation Initiative and scholars from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds and institutions resulted in a new paper assessing the major barriers to evidence-informed conservation policy and possible solutions. As co-author of this piece, I would like to draw attention to our work, which clearly demonstrates the need for mainstreaming conservation and increasing awareness on why conservation efforts are essential for long-term sustainable societies among policy makers and…

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4th of April 2018- Panel WC40: Wednesday 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Knowing Through Comparison in Global Environmental Politics Title: Comparing international organisations through history and Bourdieu: learning from IPCC and IPBES Presentation by: Hannah Hughes and Alice Vadrot Abstract: In our talk we seek to compare the historical establishment of two organisations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity (IPBES). However, rather than using comparison to identify the…

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Together with Mariam Akthar Schuster, I’m editing a special issue of “Innovation – The European Journal of Social Science Research”. Here is more about it: The aims of this special issue are to stimulate the debate over the role of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in IPBES and to provide a basis from which to develop concrete measures on how to cope with disciplinary imbalance in expert groups and other IPBES activities. The development…

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